March 1888: Newark newspapers reported with alarm a supposed newly discovered error in the state constitution’s 1875 amendments. Revised article VII, section 2 gave the governor, for the first time, power to appoint judges of the "Inferior Court of Common Pleas" with the Senate’s advice and consent. But the drafters let stand a pre-existing provision saying judges of the "Court of Common Pleas" were to be appointed by the Senate and Assembly. That seemed to suggest the governor could appoint only "inferior" judges. But in fact, there was only one court and class of judge. The word "Inferior" was only a vestigial reference to the court’s original name.
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March 1913: The state Supreme Court upheld the validity of the state Employers’ Liability Law against an attack on its authorization of nonjury trials in some cases. The Law Journal editors called the challenge, based on the Fourteenth Amendment and the state constitution, far fetched. "The courts no longer continue much of a preachment upon the misunderstood ‘inviolability’ of the right to a jury," they noted.
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